Happy Birthday Darnell

Many of you know and love Darnell.   That lovely lady who is creative not only with her crafting but also with her words.  Today is her birthday and I'd like to wish her a very happy day.

 

Darnell, thank you for sharing your life and creativity with us, helping us to laugh, smile, support and empathise with you and your friends and family.

Water colouring is In

Hello.  I hope you are enjoying your Friday and are looking forward to the weekend.

I have a quick card for you and for the Less is More gang, who asked for watercolour on our cards this week.

I heat embossed the image, which is new to me, bought from a friend's craft sale.  Then I smooshed distress inks onto a craft sheet and swiped the card through the inks.  I forgot how inky your fingers get when you do that, I now have attractive mustard yellow finger tips.

I hope this counts as watercolouring.

And as the stamp is new to me and was clearly unused when I bought it, I hope this counts as NBUS Darnell?

Must dash, I'm supposed to be working, sssh.

Hello

Hi there.  I hope you are enjoying your day and have some sunshine wherever you are.

I've made a little card in sunshine yellow to celebrate our summer that has finally arrived.

 

 

I took my inspiration (ok, so I copied) from the HeroArts blog here.

 

Gotta dash, starting work in a minute.  Bye.

Party invitations

These are five variations on a party invitation that I have designed for a friend of ours.  I just need him to choose the wording in the waves, whether he wants the sails coloured in and if so what colour.

Butterfly birthday

Hello

I hope you are enjoying your week and getting some crafty time in.

I have made a birthday card for one of my friends that I have known since school, which means that we are all reaching the grand old age of 50 this year (I did mine last year in fact).

This lady is indeed fabulous at fifty, as she has been all her life.  In fact even more than me, she just can't be that old!

I used green blue and lilac so I'm entering this into the Less is More challenge this week which is to use three colours or three shades of a colour.

I used my old but still wonderful PearlEx watercolours and painted a piece of card randomly with blue and green.  I then die cut the butterfly and swirls and used up the scraps with baby butterflies.  I computer generated WordArt greeting and some bling and it's done.  Thanks to this card for my inspiration.

Sketchy Birthday

Hello world

I hope you are all looking forward to the extra day's holiday on Monday we get here in the UK.

This week at Less is More, we have a sketch to follow.  It's a lovely one too, so thanks Chrissie.

Here is my offering, a pretty literal interpretation.

I wish I hadn't added the dragonfly now, but I found the punch in one of my boxes of punches (ahem, I have three, two large crates and one small one) and decided to add it.  Maybe it's just the glitter glue that make it look a bit odd.

Ah well, 'tis done now.  Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Happy Birthday Debbie

Today is my friend Debbie's birthday.  She was the first person to show me stamping and embossing, around 12 years ago and the rest is history :-)

I didn't actually manage to get the card in the post until today, but I wanted to share it with you all.

Happy Birthday Debbie, you are a truly amazing, strong, courageous and beautiful lady.

 

 

I'm also linking up to the Touch of Turquoise week at Less is More.